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One_Life_To_Give Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-08-11 06:41 AM
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24. Forget Cars, Trucks, Ships, Planes and Trains
60% fuel efficiency gives a 20% reduction in fuel consumption over Wartsilla's Record Holding diesel used in Container ships. Why start with something that spends 90% of it's life not operating. When we have machines that spend up to 90% of the time operating at load?

If it can work with Nat Gas. This beats the efficiency of our Gas Turbines used for electric generation. Seems to me that would be a good place to get it introduced to quickly.
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